Heidi and Roberts visit

Dear All,
We have had a very busy few weeks, and the rest of the Summer will be just a busy, but we have really enjoyed the visitors we have had, and the time we have been able to spend with them. We wanted to share in a small way our visit with Robert and Heidi with you.

Here is Susan Robert and Heidi in the beautiful gardens of the Palace or Rezidence in Wurzburg. While in Germany Robert got to be in a place, a fortress, and a castle. The gardens are kept beautiful all year long, even in the winter they are kept beautiful

Robert and Heidi standing by the door to our old meeting house on Domikanergasse. Heidi recognized it right away.

This is the elementary school that Heidi, Holly, and Owen attended in Wurzburg. The whole area of Leighton Barracks has now been given to the Universityof Wurzburg which is slowly converting the housing to student housing and using some of the classrooms for university classes.

This is a picture of Wurzburg from the MarienBerg Fortress showing the city center and the Main river in the foreground

This is the Rathaus (city Hall) of the famous walled city Rothenburg on the Taube. If you look at the lower left hand corner you can see Robert (red shirt) wondering why all these people were sitting on the steps (tired feet is the answer)

We spent part of a day in Rothenburg on the Taube. This is the famous corner house which is the most photographed house in Germany. Easy to understand why. For a time in the med evil period this was a very important trade city and very wealthy. Today it is again becoming very wealthy thanks to tourist, and it is very interesting to visit and to see.

This picture was taken from the inner courtyard of the Hohenzollern castle, one of the most beautifully preserved castle in Germany

This picture of the Hohenzollern castle was taken from about 5KM away and gives you an idea for how large this place was. It was restored to this state in the middle 1800's. The first mention of a fortress on this site was about 1280 AD

At the Hohenzollern castle the day we were there, there was a Porsche tractor display. Owen this picture is for you it would probably plow your field in a 1/3 the time.

The day we visited the Eagles nest it was in the clouds so the kids really couldn't see the spectacular view from there. This picture was taken from down in the valley as the clouds started to dissipate.

This beautiful sunset was taken at Koenigs See at about 10:00 PM. Koenigs See is just 5 KM from Berchtesgaden and about 8KM from the B and B where we stayed. We saw some unbelievable scenery as we drove here in the German Alps

This picture gives you a feel for the size of the Salzburg fortress. This picture was taken just a block or two from the Salzburg meeting house. Salzburg is a beautiful city, that was not damaged in the war.

This is the back of the house used in the musical Sound of Music. However this is not the real Van Trapp home in Salzburg

You can see both the fortress and the house where part of the Sound of Music was filmed

Although the temple was closed for the summer cleaning we still had a lovely tour of the temple grounds. The temple reopened the day after Robert and Heidi left for Spain.

We had a wonderful time with the kids and drove about 2200 Kilometers in 4 days and the saw a lot as you can see.
We hope your week has been a good as ours with the kids was,
Love Oma und Opa